abstract：:Models of corticostriatal motor circuitry have focused on the role of the circuit in the hemisphere of the motor cortex providing primary control (contralateral to the movement). We used functional magnetic resonance imaging and functional connectivity analyses to study circuit function in both the controlling and non...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Marchand WR,Lee JN,Thatcher JW,Hsu EW,Rashkin E,Suchy Y,Chelune G,Starr J,Barbera SS

更新日期：2008-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the effect of endothelial progenitor cells on the axon growth of cortex neurons, we transplanted CD133 cells derived from human peripheral blood to an organotypic coculture system consisting of spinal cord and cortex from neonatal rats. The axon growth from cortex to spinal cord was significantly promoted in...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Yamamoto R,Ishikawa M,Tanaka N,Kamei N,Nakanishi K,Sasaki H,Nakamae T,Mochizuki Y,Asahara T,Ochi M

更新日期：2008-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigating the neural substrates of auditory processing of absolute pitch musicians has relevance for understanding the capabilities of the human brain for plasticity. Electroencephalography was used to examine the N1 of auditory-evoked potentials from absolute pitch musicians, nonabsolute pitch musicians, and nonm...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Wu C,Kirk IJ,Hamm JP,Lim VK

更新日期：2008-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous event-related potential studies in Indo-European languages reported a surprising finding that failed syntactic category processing appears to block lexical-semantic integration, suggesting a functional primacy of syntax over semantics. An event-related potential experiment was conducted to test whether there ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Yu J,Zhang Y

更新日期：2008-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted semiautomated, atlas-based analyses of regional brain volume changes on MRIs of children and adolescents with Down syndrome (DS) (N=15), DS with comorbid autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (N=15), and age-matched or sex-matched typically developing controls (N=22). Selective volumetric changes were correlated...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Carter JC,Capone GT,Kaufmann WE

更新日期：2008-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:This study provides evidence for the role of semantic composition in compound word processing. We examined the online processing of isolated two meaning unit compounds in Chinese, a language that uses compounding to 'disambiguate' meaning. Using auditory presentation, we manipulated the semantic meaning and syntactic ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Bai C,Bornkessel-Schlesewsky I,Wang L,Hung YC,Schlesewsky M,Burkhardt P

更新日期：2008-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) enzymatically degrades biogenic amines such as norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin, and plays a key role in the regulation of their neurotransmission. Allelic variations at the MAOA locus have been implicated in the neurobiology of aggression and impulsivity. We investigated the possible...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Lee BT,Ham BJ

更新日期：2008-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory sensory memory is assumed to play an important role in cognitive development, but little is known about it in young children. The aim of this study was to estimate the duration of auditory sensory memory in 2-year-old children. We recorded the mismatch negativity in response to tone stimuli presented with dif...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Glass E,Sachse S,von Suchodoletz W

更新日期：2008-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Histamine-related drugs are commonly used in the treatment of vertigo and related vestibular disorders. Their site and mechanism of action, however, are still poorly understood. To increase our knowledge of the histaminergic system in the vestibular organs, we have investigated the expression of H1 and H3 histamine re...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Botta L,Tritto S,Perin P,Laforenza U,Gastaldi G,Zampini V,Zucca G,Valli S,Masetto S,Valli P

更新日期：2008-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacological activation of group III metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR) or inhibition of group I mGluR by subtype-selective ligands is neuroprotective in experimental models of Parkinson's disease. The aim of this study was to investigate whether targeting both receptor subtypes simultaneously produces enhanc...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Vernon AC,Croucher MJ,Dexter DT

更新日期：2008-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In Purkinje cells from cerebellar slice cultures, low-threshold Ca spike (LTS) gives rise to complex bursts in the soma that resemble the complex spike induced by climbing fibers stimulation. We show that LTS is reduced by T-type and R-type Ca channel blockers (SNX-482, nickel, or mibefradil). We propose that LTS is g...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Cavelier P,Lohof AM,Lonchamp E,Beekenkamp H,Mariani J,Bossu JL

更新日期：2008-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex differences in event-related potentials were examined in 23 women and 24 men during a mental rotation task. We found an early (130-400 ms) and a late (400-700 ms) ERP mental rotation effect. The late rotation effect, which is thought to indicate the onset of the cognitive process of mental rotation, emerged about ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Gootjes L,Bruggeling EC,Magnée T,Van Strien JW

更新日期：2008-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we determined whether the visuospatial attention network of frontal, parietal, and occipital cortex can be parsed into two different subsets of active regions associated with transient and sustained processes within the same cue-to-target delay period of an endogenously cued visuospatial attention task....

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Luks TL,Sun FT,Dale CL,Miller WL,Simpson GV

更新日期：2008-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Decoding verbal and nonverbal emotional expressions is an important part of speech communication. Although various studies have tried to specify the brain regions that underlie different emotions conveyed in speech, few studies have aimed to specify the time course of emotional speech decoding. We used event-related p...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Paulmann S,Kotz SA

更新日期：2008-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The time-dependent effect of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on working memory was investigated by applying anodal stimulation over the left prefrontal cortex. This single-blind, sham-controlled crossover study recruited 15 healthy participants. A three-back verbal working-memory task was performed befo...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Ohn SH,Park CI,Yoo WK,Ko MH,Choi KP,Kim GM,Lee YT,Kim YH

更新日期：2008-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:To test for the feature specificity of adaptation of auditory-cortex magnetoencephalographic N1m responses to phonemes during lipreading, we presented eight healthy volunteers with a simplified sine-wave first-formant (F1) transition shared by /ba/, /ga/, and /da/, and a continuum of second-formant (F2) transitions co...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Jääskeläinen IP,Kauramäki J,Tujunen J,Sams M

更新日期：2008-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Automatic phrase-building processes were investigated in second-language (L2) learners of French (native German speakers). Event-related brain potentials were recorded while participants listened to syntactically or semantically correct or incorrect French sentences containing a subject-modifying relative clause. Phra...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Isel F

更新日期：2007-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) invariably result in fatal neurodegeneration and accumulation of PrP, an abnormal form of the host prion protein PrP, encoded by the PRNP gene. A naturally occurring polymorphism (methionine/valine) at PRNP codon 129 is associated with variation in relative disease ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： O'Rourke KI,Spraker TR,Zhuang D,Greenlee JJ,Gidlewski TE,Hamir AN

更新日期：2007-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:STC-1 cells have been established as an enteroendocrine cell line from the small intestine. By monitoring the level of intracellular Ca using a calcium-imaging technique, cellular responses of intestinal STC-1 cells to compounds of five basic tastants were investigated. Although this cell line was known to respond to ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Saitoh O,Hirano A,Nishimura Y

更新日期：2007-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the phonological influences on the lexicosemantic process with a strong orthographic constraint, we used kanji (morphogram) homophone words and measured, using magnetoencephalography, the neural activities during the silent reading of prime-target pairs. The primes were phonologically the same as or dif...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Wei Q,Ihara A,Hayakawa T,Murata T,Matsumoto E,Fujimaki N

更新日期：2007-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia or global ischemia causes rapid loss of consciousness and a sudden increase in spontaneous transmitter release suggesting that coordinated synaptic activity is impaired. Gamma oscillations (30-100 Hz) are thought to provide for binding of parallel processed information in the brain, contributing to cognition a...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Fano S,Behrens CJ,Heinemann U

更新日期：2007-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Event-related potential studies have reported error-related negativity following both error commission and feedback indicating errors or monetary loss. The present study examined whether error-related negativities could be elicited by a predictive cue presented prior to both the decision and subsequent feedback in a g...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Dunning JP,Hajcak G

更新日期：2007-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural salient serine/arginine-rich protein 1 (NSSR1) expression has been found in mouse cerebral neurons, cerebellar Purkinje cells, pyramidal neurons and granule cells of dentate gyrus and regulates the pre-mRNA splicing of genes important for neural functions. In this study, we demonstrated that NSSR1 is expressed ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Peng ZY,Lee SC,Chen XH

更新日期：2007-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:By means of magnetoencephalography we investigated the auditory-evoked fields (AEFs) elicited by broadband noise bursts in a gap-detection paradigm in children. AEFs of 16 healthy children (mean age 8.7 years) were recorded while they passively listened to 100-ms white-noise bursts with temporal gaps of 3, 6, 10 and 3...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Diedler J,Pietz J,Bast T,Rupp A

更新日期：2007-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the detection of rare task-irrelevant changes in the lexical status of speech stimuli. Participants performed a nonlinguistic task on word and pseudoword stimuli that occurred, in separate conditions, rarely or frequently. Task performance for pseudowords was deteriorated relative to words, suggesting ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Muller-Gass A,Roye A,Kirmse U,Saupe K,Jacobsen T,Schröger E

更新日期：2007-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the long-term effects of the antidepressant escitalopram on rat serotonin (5-HT) neuronal activity and hippocampal neuroplasticity. In the dorsal raphe nucleus, a 2-week treatment with escitalopram (10 mg/kg/day, subcutaneous) did not modify the firing activity of 5-HT neurons, whereas a cotreatmen...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Mnie-Filali O,Faure C,Mansari ME,Lambás-Señas L,Bérod A,Zimmer L,Sánchez C,Haddjeri N

更新日期：2007-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The phonemic structure of the maternal language determines the way of perceiving speech signals. A typical example is that native Japanese listeners map two English phonemes, /r/ and /l/, onto the same /R/. This perceptual assimilation of speech sounds has been associated with the left and/or right posterior perisylvi...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Hara NF,Nakamura K,Kuroki C,Takayama Y,Ogawa S

更新日期：2007-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:This study used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the neural basis underlying the sequential involvement of syntactic processing in the course of sentence comprehension. In experiments, a noun, case particle, and verb were presented one by one, constituting simple sentences in Japanese...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Ogawa K,Ohba M,Inui T

更新日期：2007-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that high levels of prenatal testosterone exposure are implied in the aetiology of dyslexia and its frequently co-occurring sensory problems. This study examined 2D : 4D digit ratio (a marker of fetal testosterone exposure) in dyslexic and normal reading children. No group differences in 2D : 4D ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Boets B,De Smedt B,Wouters J,Lemay K,Ghesquière P

更新日期：2007-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence exists that motilin immunoreactivity is highly expressed in Purkinje cells. In this study, immunohistochemistry and whole-cell patch-clamp recording were performed to investigate the spatial distribution and electrophysiological effects of motilin receptors in the cerebellum. We show here that motilin recepto...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Chen H,Chen L,Wang JJ,Wei HJ,Yung WH

更新日期：2007-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In isolated neurons of Helix pomatia, a two-microelectrode voltage clamp technique was used to study the effect of Fe3+ on voltage-gated potassium currents: a low-threshold fast-inactivating current (I(A)) and a high threshold slow-inactivating current with calcium-dependent (I(C)) and calcium-independent (I(DR)) comp...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Bukanova JV,Solntseva EI,Skrebitsky VG

更新日期：2007-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Pronouns are commonly used instead of explicitly repeating a name, and, in many cases, we comprehend language faster when pronouns are used instead of repetitive references. This is surprising because pronouns are often ambiguous, whereas repeated names provide precise reference. We used functional MRI to investigate ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Almor A,Smith DV,Bonilha L,Fridriksson J,Rorden C

更新日期：2007-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial Alzheimer's disease due to presenilin 1 (PSEN1) mutations shows considerable phenotypic variability with differences in neuropathology and neurological symptoms. Spastic paraparesis is a common neurological phenotype associated with Alzheimer's disease arising from PSEN1 mutations. To investigate whether know...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Karlstrom H,Kwok JB,Gregory GC,Hallupp M,Brooks WS,Schofield PR

更新日期：2007-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cognitive decisions can be strongly susceptible to the manner in which options are presented ('framing effect'). Here we investigated the neural basis of response adjustments induced by changing frames during intuitive decisions. Evidence exists that the anterior cingulate cortex plays a general role in behavior...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Deppe M,Schwindt W,Pieper A,Kugel H,Plassmann H,Kenning P,Deppe K,Ringelstein EB

更新日期：2007-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The cochlea can be protected from acoustic trauma by moderate-level sound exposure. It is suggested that olivocochlear system may play a significant role in this protection. This study was performed to investigate distortion product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) amplitudes changes and the efficiency of contralateral no...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Peng JH,Tao ZZ,Huang ZW

更新日期：2007-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we ask whether or not the involuntary capture of attention by a specific information type can produce domain-specific activation. Participants indicated the presence of a flicker in rapidly alternating letter-string masks presented in the periphery. Despite letters not being relevant to the task, we fou...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Finkbeiner M,Slotnick SD,Moo LR,Caramazza A

更新日期：2007-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to investigate the neural mechanism of extending a brand in a specific product category to other product categories. Facing two sequential stimuli in pairs consisting of beverage brand names (stimulus 1) and product names (stimulus 2) in other categories, 16 participants were asked to indicate...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Ma Q,Wang X,Dai S,Shu L

更新日期：2007-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Older adults are known to gain more than younger adults from the simultaneous presentation of semantically congruent sensory stimuli. Although these findings are quite exciting, they may not solely be due to age-related differences in multisensory processing. Rather, enhanced integration may be explained by alteration...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Peiffer AM,Mozolic JL,Hugenschmidt CE,Laurienti PJ

更新日期：2007-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical auditory categorization was assessed in 2-month-old infants at genetic risk for dyslexia and controls. Manipulated /bAk/ and /dAk/ speech stimuli were used as frequently presented standards. The neuroelectric brain responses of the control infants were highly sensitive to the phoneme boundary that separated t...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： van Leeuwen T,Been P,van Herten M,Zwarts F,Maassen B,van der Leij A

更新日期：2007-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficits in processing of auditory stimuli are known to play an important role in the aetiology of dyslexia. To specify the auditory deficit in children at risk for dyslexia, 19 children with a phonological deficit and 15 controls were tested using the mismatch negativity event-related potential, which reflects preatt...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Bitz U,Gust K,Spitzer M,Kiefer M

更新日期：2007-06-11 00:00:00